In this the instincts of traditional green politics towards insularity and self-sufficiency, the cause of all those gibes about yoghurt-knitting, are completely mistaken.

His purpose was evidently to Americanize, or at least Bostonize, the realism he had observed in Russian and French literature by attending only to the more commonplace in character and event.

No Washingtonian reached first after the sixth inning, and no New Yorkian after the fifth, save Chase, who tripled, with one out, in the seventh, and was left at third.

Well, mine ain't, said Beatrice; I wish she was, that's all; I'd like to change with you; come, how'll you swap?